Cheshire History volumes 48 to date
Contents
Editorial
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Chairman’s Introduction
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Beyond the Walls: recent discoveries in the extramural areas of Roman Chester
Peter Carrington
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The Bold Lady Revisited: Lady Mary Cholmondeley and her impact on Jacobean Cheshire
John Hopkins
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A Randle Holme Memorial Board in the Parish Church of St Mary, Pulford
John Derek Venables
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The Old Glasshouse
(Christleton & Boughton)
Hazel Warhurst
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The Parish and the Public Highway: local provision and maintenance of roads and bridges in the area of Cheshire District, c1500-1900
David Haynes
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Croxton Flint Mill and its relationship with the Trent and Mersey Canal
Mike Walton
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John Romney, artist-engraver (1785-1863): a biographical investigation
Tony Foster
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Colonial Conies and Cheshire Clays: a search for a solution
Stephen Matthews
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Torr Vale Mill and the Cotton Industry on the River Goyt at New Mills
Derek Brumhead
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The Impact of the Railway on Mollington; a small rural community in Cheshire
Malcolm McIver, Brian Webster & Carl Stagg
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Editorial: The Stephen Matthews Prize
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CLHA Chairman’s Report
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Chester Cathedral Library: its origins and recent restoration
Derek Nuttall
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The English Longbow and Cheshire Bowmen
Bernard Dennis
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Sir Oliver Starkey, Knight of Malta
Tony Bostock
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Agriculture in and around Congleton in the seventeenth century with particular reference to dairy farming
David Jackson
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Cheshire and the Lysons Brothers: the making of a volume of Magna Britannia
Peter Warburton
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The Workhouse Children of West Cheshire 1834-1871
Mike Handley
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Hidden Agenda: the early misfortunes of Willaston Board School under schoolmaster James Hall
Nancy Ball
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Vauxhall comes to the Port: the story of the development of Hooton airfield into Vauxhall Motors Ellesmere Port Plant
Bill Thacker
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Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Editorial
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CLHA Chairman’s Report
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A Chance Discovery: Genealogical and other extracts from the Diary of Sarah Savage of Wrenbury Wood, for the years 1688-1695
Edward J Law
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‘Thrown Into The Verge’: Cheshire’s Vanishing Pinfolds
David Hayns
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An Accidental Heiress: The life and times of AnnaMarie Hunt of Mollingotn Hall (1771-1861)
Anne Marie Curtis
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The Portrait Paintings of Catherine Harrison (1779-1807)
Julie Carroll
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‘A Complete and Constant Superintendence’: The Cheshire Parks and Gardens of Edward Kemp (1817-1891)
Elizabeth Davey
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A Prospect of Cheshire: The agrarian landscape in the era of high farming circa 1870
Stephen Matthews
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Man with a Mission: The life and work of William Shaw (1842-1926) of the Mersey Mission to Seamen, Runcorn
David Sterry and Tony Foster
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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CLHA Chairman’s Introduction
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The Green Knight: A Quest for Historical Identities. An essay for the octocentenary of Roger de Lacy in 1211
Carole Robinson
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Cheshire’s Forgotten Salt Makers: Sea Salt Production on the Wirral
Anthony Annakin-Smith
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An Ancient Mariner and Tudor Hero: Sir George Beeston of Beeston
Tony Bostock
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The Forgotten Estate of Moston Hall and the Founding of The Dale
David Russell
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The Leather Trades in Seventeenth Century Congleton
David Jackson
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Vagrancy and Vice at Chester: The Relief of the Itinerant Poor, 1834-71
Mike Handley
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Aspects of Agriculture in Cheshire in the Victorian Period
Peter Young
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Tribute to Joan Leach, MBE (1933-2010)
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Chairman’s Introduction
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Notes from the Editor
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Landscape of Power, Aldford Castle, Cheshire
Rachel Swallow
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The Surrender of the City of Deventer to Spain by Sir William Stanley of Hooton
Gerry Quinn
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'A Noble Specimen of Architecture': A History of Tabley Old Hall
Sarah Webb
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The Breaking of John Pickering of Thelwall
Michael Taylor
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The Chester Branch of the Charity Organisation Society
Peter Young
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Almshouse to Housing Trust: Philanthropic, Affordable and Social Housing in Malpas, c1500 to the Present
David Hayns
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In Brief: Hooton's Lost Monument
Bill Thacker
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Contents
Chairman’s Introduction
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Notes from the Editor
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Obituaries: Frank Latham, Tom Driver, Oliver Bott
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Diamond Jubilee Celebrations in Cheshire, June 2012: Reports sent in by History Societies
John Hess
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Two For One: the Archaeological Survey of Shocklach Castle, Cheshire
Rachel Swallow
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The Market and Fairs of Late Medieval Macclesfield
Jane Laughton
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Peas and Pig Men: The Human Face of Chester's Medieval Court Records
Vanessa Greatorex
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A Man of Wealth and Principle: John Walker of Congleton
David G. Jackson
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Rock Ferry, Rock House and Rock Farm
Tony Dyson
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A 'Notorious' Cheshire Clergyman: the Rev. Joshua King, Rector of Woodchurch (1821-61)
Mike Handley
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'Open' and 'Closed' in South-West Cheshire: a New Methodology for Assessing Landownership Concentration
Polly Bird
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In Brief: Evelyn Guthrie
Ruth Sear, Mr Jackson's Books Sarah Webb
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Contents
Chairman’s Introduction
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Notes from the Editor
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Extending the Known Route of the Middlewich to Chesterton Roman Road (2011-2012)
Tony Kehoe
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Palimpsest of Border Power: the Archaeological Survey of Dodleston Castle, Cheshire
Rachel Swallow
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Select Documents for Local and Family Historians in the Cheshire Quarter Sessions Files, 1571 to 1616, part one: 1571 to 1603 [with summaries for 1571-80]
Paul Booth
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Sir Thomas Holcroft of Vale Royal
Tony Bostock
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A History of Leather Gloves: the mid-Cheshire Industry
Peter Young
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The Paper Mills of Chester
Mike Malley
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The Early History of the Chester and Crewe Railway to c.1846
John Elsworth
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From International Success to Industrial Decline: Taylor Lang & Co., Stalybridge, 1852-1936
Nathan Booth
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High Street Heyday? Edwardian Retail in a Small Cheshire Market Town (Middlewich)
Julie Elizabeth Smalley
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Contents
Chairman’s Introduction
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Notes from the Editor
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Sir Piers Dutton of Dutton and Hatton, c.1480-1545: Mayor of Chester, High Sheriff of Cheshire and Knight of the Body of Henry VIII
Edward Dutton
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Sin and Society in Sixteenth-Century Cheshire
Patricia Cox
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Select Documents for Local and Family Historians in the Cheshire Quarter Sessions Files, 1571 to 1616, part one: 1571 to 1603 continued [with summaries for 1580-90]
Paul Booth
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There's No Smoke Without Fire: Hovels, Houses and the Hearth Tax in Ashton and Mouldsworth
Sharon M Varey
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The Caldwell Ledgers: from Record Office to Website
Joy Uings
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Commemorating the Great War: War comes to Provincial England: Nantwich welcomes Belgian Refugees,
1914-17
Paul Anderton
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Runcorn New Town: Planning a Community around Transportation
Sandeep Sandhu
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In Brief: The Story of Nelson Cottage in Parkgate Geoff Wright, The Origins of the 'Cheshire Cat' Peter Young
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Contents
Chairman’s Introduction
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Notes from the Editor
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Obituary: Tony Foster
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Lost and Found: a Medieval Castle in Poulton, West Cheshire?
Rachel Swallow & Matthew Thomas
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Cheshire's Seat of Learning: Brasenose College, Oxford
Tony Bostock
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Select Documents for Local and Family Historians in the Cheshire Quarter Sessions Files, 1571-1616, part one 1571-1603 continued [with summaries for 1590-96]
Paul Booth
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'Partakers of the Afflictions of the Gospel': the Sufferings of Roman Catholics, Quakers and Presbyterians in Post-Reformation Malpas, 1582 to c.1720
David Hayns
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Dee House - the Early Years
Tom Welsh
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The Derby House Estate and the Chester and Birkenhead Railway: Decimus Burton, George Stephenson and Rock Ferry, 1833-40
Tom Dyson
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George Williamson, Nineteenth-Century Cheshire Carter and Publican
Chester Guttridge
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Principles, Power and Finance: the Politics of Poor Relief in West Cheshire, 1834-71
Mike Handley
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Recent Work on Cheshire History: a Select Bibliography
Morris Garratt
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Chairman's Introduction
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Notes from the Editor
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Successful Careerists from
South-East Cheshire in the years 1383- 1403
Jane Laughton
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Patrons, Puritans and Parsons: The Patronage at St Boniface Church, Bunbury, Cheshore from c1300 to Present
John Elsworth
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Select Documents for Local and Family Historians in the Cheshire Quarter Sessions Files, 1571 to 1616: part one: 1571 to 1603, continued [with summaries for 1596 - 1603]
Paul Booth
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Chester's Georgian Poet: The Life and Times of Priscilla Pointon 1735 - 1801
Ann Marie Curtis
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Lime Burning on Wirral: a gazetteer of lime kiln sites
Rowan Patel
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Operation Pluto and Cheshire's Part in the Distribution of Petrol
Peter Young
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Recent Work on Cheshire History: a Select Bibliography
Morris Garratt
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Chairman's Introduction
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Notes from the Editor
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Obituaries:Joan Beck, Jane Laughton
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Twenty Years On ...
(CLHA 1998 to 2018)
Jonathan Pepler
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Gentle Bastards in Sixteenth Century Cheshire: a case study of the Dutton family
Edward Dutton & Patricia Lawton
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'Learned Langwaged'': William Smith (1546-1618). Rouge Dragon Poursuivant of Arms
Tony Bostock
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The 'Pitcht Battell at Torperley'
Peter Young
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Some Mid-Seventeenth Century 'Hearse' Skulduggery
John Elsworth
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Sandstone Bridges on the River Dibbin and Tributary Streams
Rowan Patel
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A Manor, a Lighthouse and a Squabble over Inheritance
Michael Taylor
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Representation, Reform, Rates and Services: the Municipal Government of Chester
1835-40
Mike Handley
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From Stockport to Victoria, Australia: a story of two local emigrants
Eileen Garratt
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Belgian Refugees during the First World War
John Curtis
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Recent Work on Cheshire History: a Select Bibliography
Morris Garratt
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Nº 59 2019-20
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Chairman's Introduction
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Notes from the Editor
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Obituaries: A.D.M.Phillips, Richard Turner
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Does One Herison Make a Castle?: an Early-Fourteenth Century Document Relating to Tattenhall, West Cheshire
Rachel Swallow & Matthew Thomas
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Material Girls: Women Talking about Clothing, Memory and Identity in the Diocese of Chester's Consistory Courts, 1540-1640
Jennifer McNabb
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The Lands of the Hunt Family of Thelwall
Michael Taylor
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Mapping The County: William Lloyd Holden in Cheshire, 1829-1830
Jonathan Pepler
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Prisoners of War and Their Camps in Cheshire
Peter Young
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A Library in Green Fields: a History of the Cheshire County Training College, Crewe, and later Manchester Metropolitan University Cheshire Campus Library Service
Sarah Webb & Margaret Roberts
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In Brief: Five Medieval Cheshire Knights
Tony Bostock
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Recent Work on Cheshire History: a Select Bibliography
Morris Garratt
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Nº 60 2020-21
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Chairman's Introduction
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Notes from the Editor
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Obituaries
Peter Boughton, Pat Dale, Hilary Morris, Colin Phillips
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The Evolution of St Boniface Parish Church, Bunbury, Cheshire.
Faithfully Following the Fashions (part one of two)
John Elsworth
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Select Documents for Local and Family Historians in the Cheshire Quarter Sessions files,
1571 to 1616: part two (with summary for 1603-04)
Paul Booth
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George Latham and Bradwell Reformatory School
Richard Vickery
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The Rise of John Trevor: Editor of the Chester Chronicle,
Public Servant and Mayor of Chester, 1861 and 1862
Mike Handley
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Women Doctors in Cheshire, 1891 - 1939
Carol Coles
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Men's Hockey in Cheshire before 1914
Jim Ormandy
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In Brief:
Learning the Ropes: Parkgate, Rope-Making and The Ropewalk
Anthony Annakin-Smith
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Recent Work on Cheshire History: a Select Bibliography
Morris Garratt
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Nº 61 2021-22
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Chairman’s Welcome
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Notes from the Editor
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Obituary: Samuel Rhys Williams
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The Descent of Some Chester Libraries
Ralph Hanna
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Thomas Cromwell’s Assault on the Palatinate: Cheshire’s Gentry Feuds as a Catalyst for the Unification of England
Ed Dutton
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Mary Fitton: The Life and Loves of an Elizabethan Maid of Honour
Tony Bostock
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Select Documents for Local and Family Historians in the Cheshire Quarter Sessions files, 1571to 1616: Part Two [with summary for January to July 1605]
Paul Booth
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The Battle of Rowton Moor, 2September 1645: the Forgotten, Neglected, Decisive Battle for Control of Cheshire and the Region
Bob Burgess
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Real Stories from Mere Accounts: Exploring Shocklach (Saint Edith) Churchwardens’ Records, 1725-1916
David Hayns
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Macclesfield Baths and Washhouses and its Patrons in the Nineteenth Century
Sarah Griffiths
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Winsford’s Inspector of Nuisances: The Development of a ‘Vile Town’s’ Infrastructure, 1890-1930
D.A. Nellist
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In Brief:
A Time Capsule of a Time Capsule: a Charcoal-filled Pit within Poulton Chapel Graveyard
Kevin Cootes, Dot Broughton, Carrie Armstrong, Janet Axworthy, David Jordan, Hannah Russ and Rea Carlin
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How South American Gold Transformed a Corner of Neston
Anthony Annakin-Smith
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Prisoners of War and their Camps in Cheshire: Continued
Peter Young
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Recent Work on Cheshire History: a Select Bibliography
Morris Garratt
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Nº 62 2022-23
Contents
Chairman’s Welcome
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Editors' Introduction
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Obituaries: Janet Dines, Morris Garrett
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Select Documents for Local and Family Historians in the Cheshire Quarter Sessions files, 1571to 1616: Part Two 1603 to 1616 (continued)
Paul Booth
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Balloons Over Cheshire: the
Genesis of Manned Flight
Peter Young
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Congleton Tanneries: a Study of some of the Town's Tanyards
David G. Jackson
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Chester Politics: Parliamentary Electoral Reform in 1867 and its Effects upon the 1868 Election
Michael Handley
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Statesmanship, Tragedy and Love: a Remarkable Tale of Nineteenth-Century Cheshire
Anthony Annakin-Smith
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Chester Ladies Play Hockey: the First Fifty Years
James Ormandy
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The Enigmatic Beatrice Tunstall: a Forgotten Cheshire Author?
David Hayns
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In Brief:-
Surnames: Seeking Backstories from Middlewich
Julie E. Smalley
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Recent Work on Cheshire History: a Select Bibliography
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.....plus several book reviews and notes on the contributors.
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Nº 63 2023-24
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Contents
Chairman’s Introduction
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Editors’ Introduction
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Obituary: Alex Cowan
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Select Documents for Local and Family Historians in the Cheshire Quarter Sessions files, 1571 to 1616: Part Two [with summary for 1606-07]
Paul Booth
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The Comberbach Family in Chester, 1680s to 1780s
Tom Welsh
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A Disputed Will: The Case of Charles Whittingham of Over
Tony Bostock
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John Twemlow of Hatherton: the Legacy of a Fraudster
Jonathan Pepler
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Marple’s First Historian: Joel Wainwright, 1831-1916
Geoff Higgins
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Rural Outposts of the Established Church: Mission Rooms and Halls in South-West Cheshire, 1880s to 1990s
David Hayns
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Edward Cox’s ‘Tumulus’ at Storeton, Wirral
Rowan Patel
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In Brief:
Sir Marmaduke Langdale’s Road to Rowton Moor and the Phantom Bridge of Boats
Bob Burgess
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Recent Work on Cheshire History: a Select Bibliography
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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